Author: Ben

Former Writer

It’s no secret that GTA Online offers the bare minimum of security for PC users; it’s 2013 era technology. As a result, popular Twitch streamers playing GTA Online are still experiencing issues where some cheaters mess with their lobbies to this day. As a result of Rockstar Games and GTA Online’s heavy reliance on peer-to-peer networking for games lobbies, cheaters are able to take lobbies offline or crash the game of specific players. Peer-to-peer networking is often a dangerous protocol to use as it reveals potentially sensitive information visible to malicious cheaters. They can then use the info to DDOS,…

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Modding for the Grand Theft Auto series has played a large part in the major success of the franchise. It helped expand the game in new and fun ways and kept the franchise thriving and alive on the PC platform with millions of copies selling every single month. But the IP holders of the game, also known as Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, are not very appreciative of its thriving modding community that continues to spend countless hours to create new experiences for Rockstar Games’ consumers out of their free will. We have a lot to uncover, but hope that…

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After a super long painful wait with a series of leaks appearing on all over the internet, it’s officially confirmed that Rockstar Games are bringing updated versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas with a release window set sometime this year packaged in one bundle named Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. The company has opted not to share any gameplay yesterday but Rockstar has shared a 25-second video teaser on Twitter and the Rockstar Newswire with its original artwork with some animation featured across all three games with the infamous ‘Coming Soon’…

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A small group of passionate fans of GTA are currently on an ongoing legal battle between Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive for alleged copyright infringement. In early September, we reported on our Twitter page that Take-Two filed a civil action lawsuit against 5 individual fans. This cause of action comes after the group filed a counterclaim on GitHub weeks after Take-Two sent a takedown notice for a full removal of the reverse engineering projects for GTA III and GTA Vice City. The group of passionate enthusiasts argued that they were not using any infringing code, thus believed the project…

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This week, Rockstar released its most requested and long-awaited update to GTA Online, the Los Santos Tuners update is one of the latest DLC’s to hit this game after nearly 8 months after the company shipped out its newest largest heist update Cayo Perico to GTA Online. This time Rockstar emphasises the car culture theme, having nearly played most of this update it really brought a lot to this game. It brings an-new hub for players to hang around with their ride, a series of heist Fast & Furious alike missions and introduces a new Autoshop available for purchase where…

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Since Red Dead Redemption 2 landed on PC in late 2019, the modding community continues to deliver amazing mods to transform the frontier experience to enhance the game with lots of quality of life changes. As new tools from mod developers release, new mods are being uploaded at a hugely fast rate across a community-driven site, RDR2Mods and Nexus Mods. While we wait for OpenIV to support archive editing for the game files, fairly recently LMS, tool and mod developer, released Lenny’s Mod Loader, enabling all mod developers to modify the game files for the first ever time. As it has released the…

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The cheating problems for its popular online games appear to have caught Rockstar’s attention after several years of complaints from its players, now it seems the company is taking the issues more seriously with new job listings Rockstar’s online games in the last couple of years on PC have been a slightly negative experience for some in GTA Online and Red Dead Online. Unfortunately cheaters with mod menus are ruining some player’s enjoyment by using its cheating tools to unfairly grief or even crash a player’s client. Of course, this has led to some criticism in the Rockstar Games community…

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This review contains minor spoilers from the story – all major spoilers are not covered Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), Rockstar’s most ambitious work to date, set in the western times of America in 1899 during times when the west is dying and the civilized world is approaching. A prequel to its predecessor 2010s Red Dead Redemption, originally cast by the tortuous wanted outlaw John Marston (performed by Rob Wiethoff), a former member of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang. This time about the second entry into the franchise casts an entirely new protagonist Arthur Morgan (performed by Roger Clark),…

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Grand Theft Auto V is scheduled to re-launch on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 versions in the second half of 2021 as announced in June 2020. It’s set to feature new enhancements to the visuals and expand upon the game. Take-Two Interactive the parent company of Rockstar Games has shed some light on the port speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday. The folks at VGC reports earlier this week that Take-Two’s CEO of the company Strauss Zelnick speaking at the conference illustrated that Take-Two has no interest in publishing half-axed remaster ports and…

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Red Dead Redemption 2 running on the latest Nvidia drivers appears to be having some problems on the latest driver update Nvidia introduced on 25 February 2021 (version 461.72). A fellow Reddit user sprth shared a video on the r/PCRedDead subreddit demonstrating how the character models from the latest driver update are displaying black artifacting dots on the character faces. Other users in the Reddit thread share their similar experiences after updating their drivers. https://www.reddit.com/r/PCRedDead/comments/ltfd28/is_my_gpu_failing_me_or_its_just_one_of_those/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share There is a workaround thanks to chavez_ding2001 in the Reddit thread to fix this problem for the time being until Nvidia addresses this problem by switching the…

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